It’s Mental Health Awareness Week 14th-20th May. This year’s theme is stress. At MindOut we wanted to explore what stress is like for LGBTQ people, so this week we are asking What is minority stress? Being a member of a marginalized group requires extra effort. When you’re the only LGBTQ identified person in your team … Read more
This week’s Queer Mental Health Hero is Dan Bisson, one of our sponsored Brighton Marathon runners who raised an awesome £1,296 for MindOut. Has Dan inspired you? Then sign up to run the Brighton Marathon 2019 for MindOut here. We asked Dan why he chose to run for MindOut. He said, ‘I decided to raise … Read more
As the rugby season ends for the Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents and they look forward to the Bingham Cup to be held in Amsterdam in June, they are putting on a series of social events for the city. The first of these is on April 28. The Club is hosting a masked ball … Read more
Radical Love Compassion and Self Care for LGBTQ with Lama Rod Owens Friday April 20 2018 7 – 9pm 113 Queen’s Road, Brighton BN1 3XG Brighton LGBTQ Meditation Group and MindOut are hosting an evening of discussion and practice with Lama Rod Owens as part of his European ‘Talking Love and Liberation’ Tour. By … Read more
A thank you to our sponsors, supporters, and one unique runner who took their own path…
We are delighted to announce a new grant from the Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities programme. The total awarded is £312.086 over 5 years from April 2018 – March 2023. We are so pleased to receive this grant, we are looking forward to extending the work we do with people aged over 50, particularly people … Read more
Kate Webb is MindOut’s Business Development Manager. She writes here about meeting some of the people who are raising money for MindOut this year. Last Friday I got out of the office to go and meet some of the players from University of Sussex Womens Football team. 19 members of the team are running in … Read more
We’re proud to say that the Marine Tavern are supporting MindOut with a year-long fundraising campaign that aims to raise an impressive £5,000 to support our vital work. On their JustGiving page they say: MindOut offer many services in Brighton & Hove for the LGBTQ community such as: suicide prevention, advocacy, peer-to-peer mentoring and many … Read more
In this month’s Blog for MindOut, Steve writes about his experiences of social anxiety
MindOut currently have voluntary placement opportunities for trainee and qualified counsellors. We need counsellors who are training on or are qualified from Level 7 (post graduate) or above courses, and identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans or queer. We particularly welcome applications from counsellors who fit any of these criteria: Family or Systemically-trained Relationship trained … Read more